Meditation: Warning: /r/ZenHabits is a commercial pipeline for that subreddit's lone moderator, /u/Lightfiend |
- Warning: /r/ZenHabits is a commercial pipeline for that subreddit's lone moderator, /u/Lightfiend
- What if...it all works out?
- Expectations
- Meditation is not an action. It is simply a lack of attachment to any particular experience or state of mind -- past, present, and future.
- Less Angry and Annoyed
- I meditated for my first time and I'm in awe
- Breathing and acceptance are connected
- During my meditation practice my mind starts thinking different things, ideas and conversations and I realise after a while wait I'm supposed to be mediating... Is it normal?
- What to do when you notice unpleasant thoughts
- Meditation and psychedelics
- Day 1
- If you think you are the awareness, I have a thought experiment for you.
- I can’t watch thoughts but I can note them and refocus back to my meditation object or the present.
- First time meditating...saw something but I don't know what it means?
- Just say Yes to Life and see your true Being.
- Just sitting on my bed without any intention is the greatest treasure.
- "The search for happiness IS the reason we are so uncomfortable." -Sam Harris
- Controlling your thoughts
- You're overthinking this
- Benefits
- 100 day meditation.
- Tips on AUM meditation
- What’s the point?
- The beginning
| Warning: /r/ZenHabits is a commercial pipeline for that subreddit's lone moderator, /u/Lightfiend Posted: 18 Aug 2020 11:22 AM PDT /r/ZenHabits, ostensibly a subreddit intended for "practical wisdom on happiness, goals, relationships, meditation, and self-improvement," is moderated by /u/Lightfiend, and only by /u/Lightfiend. He runs the blog The Emotion Machine .com and spams his articles to a variety of subreddits, including /r/ZenHabits. In general, although I find this kind of clandestine self-promotion a little tacky, I don't bother to make an issue out of it. However, /u/lightfiend is also manipulating the subreddit by removing reasonable and rule-abiding criticism of his articles. And that's going too far. For example, yesterday he posted this article to /r/ZenHabits and /r/TimeManagement. It is an article advocating a gradual decrease in one's "productivity gap --" i.e., time not spent 'productively.' (Learning, working out, writing articles for The Emotion Machine, etc.) Here is the exchange that followed in the comments.As you can see, the criticism was reasonable and the response was not. /u/lightfiend did not come off well and ultimately deleted his comments. But, so as not to tarnish his post with visible criticism, he used his moderator powers to remove all the other comments in that chain. Even though it was at that point the top comment. No reason was given, no message sent. Because it was done make himself and his post -- his click-through marketing link -- look better. Moderators are allowed to run subreddits however they want. They can abuse their power or be constructive; Reddit itself does not care. No consequences are on the horizon, nothing will happen. But I don't think it's okay to use a subreddit this way without making it clear -- explicitly clear -- that it is a marketing funnel for a blog. Or that upvoted criticism will be removed. So I'm taking this opportunity to make it clear myself, here on the largest subreddit I believe to have a high degree of crossover with /r/ZenHabits. Apologies to the mods of /r/Meditation for the slightly off-topic post; being good mods themselves I hope they will agree that this deserves attention. Thank you. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 18 Aug 2020 10:21 PM PDT What if it all works out? What if everything falls into place perfectly? What if everything I've ever wanted is already being put into place as I sit here? What if everything I'm experiencing now is preparing me for an incredible future? What if I'm everything I've always wanted and so much more? We're so used to "what if's" being negative things, products of the ego... what if we start asking ourselves - what if everything works out? (#1amthoughts) [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 18 Aug 2020 07:00 AM PDT Expectations weigh down reality. You begin living in an imagined world as opposed to the real one. Negative expectations cause hardship in the present. This is done in an attempt to lessen the hardship in the future if that negative expectation comes to fruition. In practicing negativity, you harm yourself in the present, as well as possibly in the future. Positive expectations cause hardship if they don't come to fruition. You hold a positive futuristic outcome for the future, but if it does not come to pass, you harm yourself. In practicing positivity, in regards to expectation, you risk the possibility of harming yourself. It is then better to have positive expectations rather than negative ones, because there is a chance having a positive expectations will not trouble you. Such as in the case the outcome lines up with your expectation. Though more than that, it is better to have no expectations at all. For no expectations allow one to live in the moment, and take the most out of their experiences. They do not fear or look forward to the future. They focus on what they can do presently, what virtues they can practice, and understand that whatever the future may hold, it is not something they have complete control over. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 18 Aug 2020 12:33 PM PDT Why try to control the uncontrollable? Why try to put order to a purely chaotic universe? There is love in the chaos. You are that love, that awareness. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 18 Aug 2020 03:36 PM PDT I've only been meditating for about a week and a half to two weeks for 15 minutes twice a day. I have noticed that things that would usually make me angry do not anymore. Like stubbing my toe, or dropping something, etc... So I geuss that's good. However, at the same time it's wierd cause I feel like I have legitimate reasons to be angry sometimes and I'm not. [link] [comments] |
| I meditated for my first time and I'm in awe Posted: 18 Aug 2020 06:14 PM PDT I only meditated for about 5 minutes but it was my first time. When I opened my eyes I realized just how relaxed I was. I swear it was so satisfying. You know when you first wake up in the morning and the sun peeks through the blinds or curtains? And you lay there and drift in and out of sleeping and your mind feels like a cloud? That's how I felt. I had no idea my mind and body could feel like that on command. It's been a couple minutes now but I'm still in awe. That's all. I just wanted to say it was well worth it (: [link] [comments] |
| Breathing and acceptance are connected Posted: 19 Aug 2020 12:55 AM PDT The very act of breathing is acceptance. And deep breathing leads to more acceptance. When we aren't able to accept something, it creates emotions within us, like anger, frustration, depression etc. That reflects in our breathing pattern i.e shallower breath, quicker breath etc. When we breathe in, and out, deeply, with awareness, that itself is acceptance of what is. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 18 Aug 2020 08:57 AM PDT *meditating. My physical exercise tends to get intense so I require longer breaks and I thought it'd be a rather ingenious idea to incorporate meditation into my workouts. That way I'll be hitting two birds with one stone. But during my practise which still is in a nascent stage my mind gets lost in thoughts. So for a 3 min practice I'd be thinking about conversations, different ideas, my schedule etc and often times it'd take me a while to realise I'm not actually focusing on the mantra. Is it normal? Is it to be expected? [link] [comments] |
| What to do when you notice unpleasant thoughts Posted: 18 Aug 2020 11:29 PM PDT Ive been meditating daily for a couple months now and am getting much better at noticing when unpleasant thoughts come around. Things to do with anxiety, low self esteem and such. Ive also been doing alot of work in therapy and focusing on expressing my emotions better as well as not ignoring them as ive always done. So now my question is that when I notice those unpleasant thoughts throughout the day im not sure if I should work through them emotionally or just notice them and let them pass by? Im sure not every thought is worth putting in the effort to think through. Im not sure how to differentiate though. Any words of wisdom would be appreciated Thanks! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 18 Aug 2020 07:43 PM PDT Im not talking about taking psychedelic substances and meditating, but how i feel psychedelics and meditation bring you to the same place but in meditation you have to actually do the work to get there. From this, these states are 100% comfortable, and you are able to give yourself in fully to the experience. I do however find it harder to get as much out of meditation as all my energy is focused on breathing rather than exploring my thought processes like on psychedelics. Smoking dmt was sometimes a terrifying experience when the fear of my ego slipping spirals out of control, and i try in a frenzy to make sense of the new reality i am experiencing. It can be so hard to get back to submitting and the whole experience ends up ruined, your actually reality feeling mashed for hours, days. This is some what true for many substances i feel. However, any loose thoughts or thought loops while meditating and you are pulled from the experience very easily. Not necessarily pulled out fully, but enough that it is so hard not to have a calm session. I came to think that meditation is an equal experience and that as i meditate theres no need for these substances. Once i realised this, i stopped my cannabis habits. I didnt try, i just felt absolutely no need anymore. What are your thoughts? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 19 Aug 2020 12:19 AM PDT Starting meditation 🧘♂️ today. I've heard nothing is greater than the power of meditation. [link] [comments] |
| If you think you are the awareness, I have a thought experiment for you. Posted: 18 Aug 2020 07:29 PM PDT Your thoughts are not you, they are simply a part of you. Your awareness is aware of the thoughts in you. A lot of people come to the conclusion that the awareness part, the "researcher" (as Roger Penrose calls it) part of you is what we call consciousness. What if consciousness is not you either? What if you only believe that you are aware? What if consciousness itself is just another illusion? [link] [comments] |
| I can’t watch thoughts but I can note them and refocus back to my meditation object or the present. Posted: 18 Aug 2020 05:02 PM PDT I once tried to focus solely on thoughts on a meditation session, it didn't go well for me. There may be some form of meditation that involves focusing on thoughts only but It would definitely not be for me. By accepting that I'm having the thoughts that I am and focusing mainly on the present and having the thoughts as background noise I can settle my hyper mind back down to earth and become calm again. [link] [comments] |
| First time meditating...saw something but I don't know what it means? Posted: 18 Aug 2020 09:35 PM PDT Hello! I hope this is the right place to post about my experience. First of all....I've never meditated before. I prayed alot back when I considered myself a Christian growing up, but sense my early twenties, Christianity never sat right with me (27 now). I've always been curious about "spirituality" but never explored it...because you know, that's hippy stuff. And what would my strong Christian parents think? But recently I've been super drawn towards it. The reason I started meditating was because I saw a tiktok (yes I know..ha) about how earth was transforming and humans are becoming self aware ....I was super curious about what this meant so I started to deep dive into "self awareness" and "spiritual awakening" which brought me to meditation and opening your third eye. So I thought, what the heck, I'll sit through a guided meditation I found on YouTube that "opens your third eye" and see what happens? Well it was a very curious experience. I was super calm of course (to be expected right?) but then I felt my whole body melt like butter. My head was buzzing. Then I started to see something...it wasn't just an image in my head, I could see it playing like a projection screen on my eyelids, very clear yet I couldn't get a full picture....I was laying in a grassy field, I could see a halo of trees above me, and two shadow figures look down at me. I could tell they were trying to get my attention, but everytime I tried to see them clearly I would get scared and open my eyes. I would close them again and the visual came right back, clear as day but still not a full picture. I was not asleep because I could feel myself clenching my eyelids to get a better picture and eventually opening them because I was trying so hard to see these shadowy figures. I felt like they were trying to get me to wake up? I saw it again the next day when I was going to bed, decided to listen to meditation music as I fell asleep. The same visual came back...just darker (because it was night?) Same field, same halo of trees around me as I look up, and 2 shadowy figures looking down on me, I was awake because I would open my eyes then close them again and it would come back (more slowly this time) Also this same night when I didn't see that vivid visual I would see alot of colorful geometric visuals (royal blue and purple hues) that I've never experienced before. So, what is this? Spirit guides? Vision of a past life? My imagination? I don't know. It was just very curious and I can't stop thinking about who those 2 shadowy figures are and why they were trying to get my attention. Or maybe it's all in my head? [link] [comments] |
| Just say Yes to Life and see your true Being. Posted: 19 Aug 2020 01:13 AM PDT No depression. No more problems. No more identity. Yes to Life. No to ego. No more mind take off. No more dreaming. No more suppressing, no more judging. No more past. Totally open and totally empty. What is Left? What cannot be destroyed nor Manifested? Who is it that witnesses the whole world? Is it different from You? Is it some stranger alien that has nothing in common with you and you are just an ever-changing person that is merely a thought? No. It is You. You are the witness of all change and all growth. You are the Supreme Infinite Intelligence. Enough of dreaming. The only only important thing is to know yourself. To understand that you don't have a sepperate self chasing clouds and to know that all worlds and universes appear in you. Eternal peace and love to all of us. <3 Cheers. [link] [comments] |
| Just sitting on my bed without any intention is the greatest treasure. Posted: 19 Aug 2020 12:59 AM PDT Silence. No wasted words. No wasted time- no time. Just Being as you always already are. Not as a person, but as Consciousness. Thoughts, emotions, sensations come and go, but you my love - you never come and go. You and Me are the same one truth. Same one Infinite Being, expressed in billions. Life is a miracle, full of magic and full of grace. We actualy are all swimming in grace, some fall asleep, some half alive and some just can't stop exploding with joy and love. It's just a matter of choice. Everyone can swim in joy. Just surrender to your effortless nature that is always here and be That. Doesn't really matter how you feel. All feelings are just clouds. You are the sky- pure unbreakable undivided Love. [link] [comments] |
| "The search for happiness IS the reason we are so uncomfortable." -Sam Harris Posted: 19 Aug 2020 12:20 AM PDT |
| Posted: 18 Aug 2020 08:30 PM PDT For me, using zen meditation as my practice and the diamond sutra as my intellectual compass, controlling my thoughts stems from practicing controlling my focus and giving rise to the thought of liberating all beings and therefore liberating no beings. The paradoxes of the intellect are somehow "solved" through stillness in sitting meditation. I don't actually figure anything out. It's more like the questions go away. And eventually so do "I". [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 18 Aug 2020 05:51 PM PDT Not just this post, though I'm sure many of you will. But meditation as a whole. You come on here, asking for advice with your practice. Which is fair, because it's new and exciting and there's a lot of stuff to learn. But everyone is so Enlightened, they stop using contractions in their sentences and spit out the same memetic platitudes that everyone else uses. "You are not your thoughts. You are awareness. There is no goal. There is only now." Et cetera, ad infinitum. These statements can be useful. But stripped of apostrophes and any cultural or historical context, they're rendered meaningless and pretentious. Sure, Spiritual Tradition X might suggest this practice, or Spiritual Tradition Y might offer these guidelines or insights. And you might even benefit from it. But without any framework, you won't get the full benefit. You're looking at a problem in your own individual consciousness, searching for answers in the results of redditors misinterpreting other redditors who reached their conclusions by misinterpreting blog posts whose authors misinterpreted books that misinterpreted spiritual traditions that get misinterpreted more and more by every generation of practitioners and translators since the tradition was founded in an entirely different era. So why not cut out the middlemen? Is this normal during meditation? Is there a right way to meditate? Is there a goal? Why should I or shouldn't I do x/y/z? Why are you asking someone else how to navigate your own consciousness? A while back I saw a video on here of an intense little guy performing the old Enlightenment Song and Dance for a crowd that probably paid good money to be there. And he kept asking "Are you aware? Are you aware?" And the audience--the physical crowd, the YouTube commentors, and the woke redditors--oohed and aahed over how wise he was. How Enlightened. And I hate to break it to you, but if you're gonna sit there and let someone else tell you how unaware you are when your awareness is literally all you have, then maybe he's right [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 18 Aug 2020 11:48 PM PDT So I'm looking to establish some mediation practices, I am curious about memory retention and recall, I'd like better focus while reading and teaching myself new things, I'm in my 30s and I'm not reading at a college level which has also bugged me and I km now its due to a ungodly lack of focus. Any feedback is helpful thank you [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 18 Aug 2020 04:09 PM PDT Wanted to start a new challenge for myself since I haven't been disciplined with meditating all days. I always use a guided meditation cause is more easy to me to meditate this way. Should I use every single day the same video or should I alternate between vids ? Also, I am going for 10-20 mins of meditation every day. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 18 Aug 2020 07:29 PM PDT A newbie who started with AUM meditation. It does feel great while meditating. I would need some tips from experts who practice AUM meditation. What am I supposed to think while meditating? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 18 Aug 2020 10:54 AM PDT Just started meditating, new to all of this, and the more I read and research about it, the more I am confused. What exactly is going to help me with meditating, and how is it going to help me in my everyday life? Is it worth it, and why? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 18 Aug 2020 07:02 PM PDT I'm extremely excited on starting meditation along with my daily workout But I can't afford a trainer or anything like that I joined the group and found so many wise people, It would be very great if anyone could give some tips on starting my meditation and what kind of meditation should I do is also a query? Please do help [link] [comments] |
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